Hacker News: xkr

New comment by xkr in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

xkr — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:20:20 +0000

I love special features, to me it is one of the biggest selling points of Blu-rays

Be ready to be shocked and offended at university, UK regulator tells students

xkr — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:40:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74z8l8vkx3o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44318112

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by xkr in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

xkr — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:05:09 +0000

Projector allows you not to have a giant black rectangle in the living room

Will Rishi Sunak's plan to ban smoking in UK work?

xkr — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 17:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-67018508

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37781470

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone

xkr — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37744982

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by xkr in "Ways YC has changed in the last year"

xkr — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 13:31:18 +0000

Sure. I have neither proper data nor a solution that would satisfy everyone. I left my comment only to show a dissenting voice in the HN engineering crowd. Someone reading HN might be under the impression WFH is universal choice of engineers. It’s not, some of us hate remote work.

New comment by xkr in "Ways YC has changed in the last year"

xkr — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 23:32:16 +0000

I can’t speak for YC or FAANG management but as a regular software engineer I totally get where they’re coming from. I worked at a FAANG company through and after covid, the difference in teams productivity was noticeable. Not in the remote working favour.

I understand some people are more productive at home but I’m yet to see a _team_ that is more productive being remote. I lack the experience working in remote-first companies like gitlab though.

Crowd Control: How We Avoid Mass Panic (2010)

xkr — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 21:27:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crowd-control/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37374786

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xkr in "Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?"

xkr — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:40:08 +0000

https://archive.is/VDZwu

Tourists are back. Is it time to tell them to stay away?

xkr — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/334c8e70-8434-439a-b181-f07c5495af4c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735648

Points: 8

# Comments: 8

New comment by xkr in "Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed"

xkr — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 02:31:06 +0000

https://archive.ph/dj67B

Putin’s technocrats saved the economy to fight a war they opposed

xkr — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 02:25:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/fe5fe0ed-e5d4-474e-bb5a-10c9657285d2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34034486

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Barbican Living

xkr — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:50:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barbicanliving.co.uk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xkr in "Queen Elizabeth II has died"

xkr — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:21:50 +0000

> Monarchies are inherently undemocratic

UK is in top-20 countries by democracy index.[1] It is classified as 'full democracy' (as opposed to 'flawed democracy', for example in the US).

[1] https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/democracy-index-2021/

UPD pdf version of the linked report: https://www.docdroid.net/xCeDvHc/eiu-democracy-index-2021-pd...

Map of London Gangs

xkr — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 09:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kulturevulturez.com/map-london-hoods/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29792946

Points: 24

# Comments: 4

New comment by xkr in "Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case"

xkr — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 21:36:21 +0000

As iOS and macOS user, I always subscribe directly through the app developer if they allow this. I stopped trusting Apple subscriptions when I called them asking to reimburse the subscription I forgot to cancel (just a few days later) and they said “no”. I never encountered any internet service declining this kind of requests.

New comment by xkr in "Once on the brink of eradication, syphilis is raging again"

xkr — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:24:52 +0000

For the people living in London: https://www.shl.uk/. Home delivery and completely free.

New comment by xkr in "NSFW Server Designation"

xkr — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:30:53 +0000

17+, which is quite ridiculous of course—Safari is pre-installed and allows you to see the same websites as Chrome or Firefox

New comment by xkr in "When did writing in major newspapers become so bad?"

xkr — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:07:05 +0000

My approach is to take their weekly magazines (paper or digital) instead of browsing through the home page. Weekly editions still include an article or two on US politics, but in general are significantly more diverse.

New comment by xkr in "The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML"

xkr — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 18:56:15 +0000

Reminded me of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/